ETHNIC AND RACIAL HERITAGE

The Census provides two different ways for respondents to indicate their heritage. The method shown here pertains to Asians, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and persons of Hispanic ethnicity. As a part of the race and ethnicity questions on the short form of the 2000 Census, members of these groups were asked to indicate one or more categories of racial or ethnic origin. In the case of Americans Indians and Alaskan Natives, respondents were given the opportunity to identify their affiliation with one or more tribes.

* Southern Asian includes Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan.

** Southeastern Asian includes Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese.

*** Eastern Asian includes Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese.

Hispanic Ancestries, 2000
		Percent of	Percent of
	Number	Total Population	Hispanic Population
Total Non-Hispanic (All Races)	1,058,369	96.17%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	42,122	3.83%	100.00%
Mexican	8,686	0.79%	20.62%
Puerto Rican	14,894	1.35%	35.36%
Cuban	4,150	0.38%	9.85%
Dominican	805	0.07%	1.91%
Central American	2,232	0.20%	5.30%
Costa Rican	328	0.03%	0.78%
Guatemalan	259	0.02%	0.61%
Honduran	332	0.03%	0.79%
Nicaraguan	316	0.03%	0.75%
Panamanian	657	0.06%	1.56%
Salvadorian	257	0.02%	0.61%
Other Central American	83	0.01%	0.20%
South American	2,863	0.26%	6.80%
Argentinian	179	0.02%	0.42%
Bolivian	74	0.01%	0.18%
Chilean	214	0.02%	0.51%
Columbian	1,227	0.11%	2.91%
Ecuadorian	293	0.03%	0.70%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	436	0.04%	1.04%
Uruguayan	38	0.00%	0.09%
Venezuelan	281	0.03%	0.67%
Other South American	113	0.01%	0.27%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,492	0.77%	20.16%
Spaniard	488	0.04%	1.16%
Spanish	1,519	0.14%	3.61%
Spanish American	180	0.02%	0.43%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,305	0.57%	14.97%

Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).

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